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N.' W. BROOME. Curing Tobac co'.

No. 80,906. Patented Aug. I], 1868.

PETERS. Photo-Lithographer. Washington, D. C.

NATHANIEL W. BROOME, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.

Letters Patent Noi 80,906, dated August 11, 186%,

IMPROVEMENT IN APPARATUS FOR CURING TOBAGGO.

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TO ALL WHOM IT-MAY conceals:-

Be it known that'I, NATHANIED W. BROQME, of Baltimore, in thecounty of Baltimore, and State of Maryland, have invented-certain new and useful Improvements in Apparatus for Curing Tobacco; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making a partof this specification, in which Figure represents a perspective view of the apparatus in question, and

Figure 2 represents a vertical cross-section of the same.

My inventionrelates to an apparatus for curing tobacco, which apparatus is placed in a house, room, or apartment, and so made, as that the heated air, as well as the smoke and products of combustion, shall ascend and pass through and around the tobacco, and thus cure it.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention, will proceed to describe the same with reference to the drawings. h

A represents a shell or jacket, within which fuel, (wood by preference,) is burned,,upon a grate-bar, B, or

otherwise, there being a door, C, to feed the fuel through, and arrangements made for draught, ash-pit, and

other appliances about a furnace.

From and through the top of this case, shell, or jacket, there projects a series of pipes, D, of any suitable number, through which the heated air and products of combustion escape into the room, house, tir apartment in irhichthe, apparatus is placed or used.

Side deflectors E are hsed on the case, which direct the heated air rising from the sides of; the furnace or heater, and carry it away from the heater, so 'as to make it pass into, the extreme ends or sides of the room. 'lheheated air thus carriedupward and outward, and escaping past the ends of the escape-pipes D, not only promotes combustion in the heater by causing a draught through it, but the columns of escaping heated air, passing through, the columns of smoke or heated gases, the hot air becomes a vehicle for carrying up and distributing the smoke with itself equally throughout the room-or apartment.

Having thusfully described my invention, what I claim in a heating-apparatus for curing tobacco in a house, room, or apartment, is V The arrangement of escape-pipes and deflectors on the shell or jacket of'the heater, so that the rising up of the heated air shall be passed outward and through the escaping products of combustion, and the former aid the latter in being uniformly disseminated throughout the curing-apartment, substantially as described.

N.'W. BROOMEJ Witnesses:

A. B. STOUGHTON, EDMUND MAssoN. 

